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Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Popova describes herself as an “interestingness hunter-gatherer” and she writes Brain Pickings, one of the most popular

Rohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future

Turns out Chalmers went on to become a leading disrupter in consciousness research.

Sarah Wilson • first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

describing the job of editor. It was not, he said, as it once had been, confined mainly to correcting spelling and punctuation. Rather, it was to know what to publish, how to get it, and what to do to help it achieve the largest readership. At

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more

Zach Baron • Martin Scorsese: “I Have to Find Out Who the Hell I Am”

His mother called her down to earth and liked her, thought she was good people, you could tell—she made this evident in little ways.

David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel

John McEnroe also came under fire for saying Serena Williams would rank at about 700 against men. He later said he regretted the statement but that he did not consider it earth-shattering to say that there are physical differences between men and women.

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Zuckerberg also acknowledged that there is still a debate over the degree to which audio — particularly live audio — ought to be moderated. If I walk by your picnic table in the park and hear you sharing misinformation with your friends, I’m not going to call the police. If the same conversation took place on Facebook audio rooms, should moderators... See more

Casey Newton • Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio

Meanwhile, over the past few months, the Cut has twice gone viral with articles about age gaps. In December, it published a reported article by Lila Shapiro interviewing multiple couples with significant age gaps. In March came a personal essay by Grazie Sophia Christie about her relationship with her husband, who’s 10 years older. On social media,... See more

The Idea of You — and the idea of age gaps

The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

Cal Newport newyorker.com